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I do this with video games too
I’m the same with games.
I should get back into The Expanse.
I literally stopped watching halfway through the finale episode of the series.
I didn’t want it to end, so it didnt
I call it media separation anxiety
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Oooh the show is great but the books are even better.
That’s interesting. I heard the show was good, so started reading the books, and stopped after one cause the characters were so annoying.
I think they definitely improve from the first book. They have great politics and they’re kind of structured like 3 trilogies. Try 2 and 3 if you want a decently satisfying conclusion without committing to more. The break between 6 and 7 is much more clear, and the reason the show ends at book 6.
Boredom with a show is a good reason IMHO. So many shows drag things out when they get popular and don’t hire good writers for the filler.
It’s not even boredom. I watched all the way up to mid season 4 of The Good Place, and then got distracted by who knows what and haven’t finished the show in years. I want to watch the end, but now, 5 years later I feel like I need to rewatch the show from scratch to do it justice, and that’s a commitment my brain can’t come around to making. So I’ll watch 7 seasons of New Girl or Parks and Rec for the 50th time instead.
The Good Place is definitely worth starting over and finishing, if that helps.
If it helps, The Good Place managed to end it well, at least IMO.
You can tend to find season recap videos for TV shows on Youtube. It’s been really useful for me, when I want to see the next season that came out but don’t really recall much of what happened since I last watched it.
I don’t want to rewatch an episode and don’t want to miss anything, but I’ve forgotten where I was up to. Quite the bind
Exactly!! Not rewatching probably hurts a lot with this…
Did this with one show literally halfway through an episode too
If I like the show, I will read the plot of the entire series. I will keep watching it, but my husband still hates it.
I despise watching shows as they come out because I can’t stand being subject to their suspense building.
Sometimes I’ll do the “advanced” maneuver where I love a show or game and I’m like “this is awesome, I don’t want to go through it too fast” and I’ll pace myself by never feeling like now is an important enough time, and never again experiencing something I was truly enjoying.
I’m actively working on “beating games I like” right now as, like, a skill I’m developing.
And then rediscover the show several years later, have forgotten all the plot so I have to start watching over from the beginning, stop watching 75% of the way through, repeat ad nauseam.
I used to do this and then I realized I just don’t really like watching TV shows. So I stopped. And life is better.
I never watched the last episode of Good Omens S2. And this was before the Gaiman controversy.
You get as far as 75%? Impressive.
So hard for me to even make it through the first episode these days. I’m glad to see a lot of new sci-fi being popular but most of it is so boring.
Hatewatching shows i already know I’m going to hate in the second monitor if my computer.
Oof, I was watching stargate sg-1 while my second kid was young, but at some point I stopped and never quite got back to it. I started trending towards social media instead. Basically when it became easier to set her back in the crib, but also combined with her being more aware of her surroundings and the uncertain nature of how long she’d sleep/be awake/how much attention she’d need meant I became less inclined to use media that’d I’d get sucked into/not want to be interrupted
It’s been a long time since I watched Stargate but I feel like that’s one that’s okay to set down before the end
